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Facebook, Twitter CEOs Ordered to Testify by GOP Senators
The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter has accelerated after Republican senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign
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Harvey Weinstein Loses Bid to Move Trial From New York City
Harvey Weinstein has lost a longshot bid to move his sexual assault trial out of New York City, as a state court rejected Thursday the movie mogul’s concerns that he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the world’s media capital. A five-judge panel of the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division issued the decision after reviewing written submissions from Weinstein’s lawyers...
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Times Square Elmo Accused of Groping 14-Year-Old Girl on School Trip
A man dressed as Elmo in Times Square allegedly groped a 14-year-old tourist who was visiting New York City with a school group over the weekend, police said.
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Manafort's Lawyers: New York Charges Are Double Jeopardy
Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort filed court papers seeking the dismissal of his New York mortgage fraud case, arguing that the charges brought in the wake of his federal convictions amount to double jeopardy.
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Trump's Fake Accent Angers Asian Americans as They Veer Left
When Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood. Berg, a Korean American who grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, recalled kids doing the “stereotypical pulling at the eyes and the mocking accent.” It made her feel...
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Epstein's Purported Madam Now a Focus in Sex Abuse Cases
She’s been called Jeffrey Epstein’s madam, the woman who recruited girls for his sexual appetites, and at times his social planner and household organizer in places ranging from New York to Palm Beach, Florida. Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of a British publishing magnate who died under mysterious circumstances, is one of the most prominent figures left from the Epstein orbit...
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Tennis Star Coco Gauff Meets Idol Michelle Obama
Despite making a first round exit at the Citi Open, rising tennis star Coco Gauff took a break from the courts on Thursday to meet and swap autographs with one of her role models, Michelle Obama.
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Schumer, ‘America's Sexiest Doctor' Call for Lifesaving Drug on Planes
A lifesaving drug is not required on flights due to a shortage. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and “America’s Sexiest Doctor” want to change that. Schumer has teamed up with Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, People magazine’s “America’s Sexiest Doctor,” to call on the Federal Aviation Administration to require EpiPens on all flights.
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CBS News Names New Evening Anchor, Revamps Morning Show
Norah O’Donnell will become anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” and Gayle King is getting two new morning show co-hosts as CBS News seeks to boost the programs’ ratings and put a tumultuous, scandal-scarred period behind it.
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Notorious Menace to Taylor Swift's NYC Townhouse Arrested Again After Another Break-in: Police
The same man sentenced last month for breaking into Taylor Swift’s Tribeca townhouse to take a nap was nabbed again Thursday after he allegedly used a concrete block to smash a glass patio door and ransacked her place, cops say.
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JetBlue Black History Display Honored Convicted Killer
JetBlue has taken down a poster of a convicted murderer that it had included as part of a Black History Month tribute at New York’s Kennedy Airport. The airline said Saturday it removed the poster paying tribute to Assata Shakur last month after being alerted via Twitter that Shakur is “a convicted cop killer.” “The intention was always to unite...
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NJ Girl Scouts Troop Leader Axed After Her Cookie Money Theft Story Falls to Pieces
An NJ Girl Scouts troop leader was removed from her position after police say her previously reported theft of more than $1,000 in cookie money sales was stolen inside a mall never actually happened.
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NYC Woman Says She Mistakenly Took Stranger Off Life Support
A New York City woman sat vigil for days at her dying brother’s hospital bedside, authorized doctors to stop life support and was arranging his funeral when officials revealed it had all been a big mistake. The man wasn’t her brother at all, but a stranger with a similar name.
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Diner Finds Pearls in His Lunch at Grand Central Oyster Bar
A lucky diner says he happened upon a pearl while eating an oyster dish at a famous New York City restaurant.
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Columbia University Student Shouts ‘White People Are The Best Thing That Happened to This World'
Video of a white undergraduate student shouting white supremacist remarks at other students on the campus of Columbia University over the weekend has gone viral, prompting university officials to release a statement condemning the incident and promising an investigation.
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In Court, Mueller Team Considers New Charges for Paul Manafort
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort may face additional charges after lawyers in the special counsel’s Russia investigation said he lied to them and broke his plea agreement, prosecutors said Friday. The latest development in Manafort’s case comes at a time of public activity in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Prosecutors obtained a guilty plea from President Donald Trump’s longtime...
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In Court, Mueller Team Considers New Charges for Paul Manafort
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort may face additional charges after lawyers in the special counsel’s Russia investigation said he lied to them and broke his plea agreement, prosecutors said Friday. The latest development in Manafort’s case comes at a time of public activity in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Prosecutors obtained a guilty plea from President Donald Trump’s longtime...
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Trump Says Pardon for Paul Manafort Is ‘Not Off the Table'
A pardon for Paul Manafort is “not off the table,” President Donald Trump said, drawing swift rebuke from critics who fear the president will use his executive power to protect friends and supporters caught up in the Russia probe. The president’s discussion of a possible pardon in an interview Wednesday with the New York Post came days after special counsel...
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Man Arrested After Hate-Filled Messages Are Found Inside Brooklyn Synagogue
A man who law enforcement sources called “emotionally disturbed” has been arrested after anti-Semitic messages were scrawled inside a Brooklyn synagogue on Thursday.
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‘Cornerstore Caroline': White Woman Calls 911 on Black Boy at Brooklyn Deli, Claiming He ‘Sexually Assaulted' Her
A white woman set off a firestorm in a Brooklyn community and on social media after she called 911 on a black boy at a bodega, claiming he grabbed her butt — only for surveillance video to show that he never touched her.